The Ukrainian National Home, is located at 140-142 Second Avenue (between Ninth St. and St. Mark's Place) in Manhattan's East Village. The building, which currently operates as a restaurant known as the Ukrainian East Village Restaurant,[1] dates back as far as 1830, and has served as a private home, YMCA location, and the Stuyvesant Casino.[2][3] UK rock band New Order played one of their first shows there on November 18, 1981.[4][5]

References

  1. "Why the East Village's Best Ukrainian Restaurant *Isn't* Veselka". whatshouldwedo.com. What Should We Do?. Retrieved 14 June 2021.
  2. Berman, Andrew (16 November 2017). "Jewish gangsters, jazz legends, and Joy Division: The evolution of the Ukrainian National Home". 6sqft. Retrieved 14 June 2021.
  3. Mason, Pete (29 May 2021). "Stuyvesant Casino: The East Village home for Jewish Gangsters and Dixieland Jazz - NYS Music". NYSMusic.com. Retrieved 14 June 2021.
  4. "Peeling Back Two Hundred Years of History on Second Avenue". Village Preservation. 2017-11-17. Retrieved 14 June 2021.
  5. Whatley, Jack. "Revisit New Order's genre-defining performance of 'Temptation' in New York City, 1981". Far Out Magazine. Retrieved 14 June 2021.

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